outreach challenge - seattle interactive - kate morris
DESCRIPTION
My challenge was to reach out to the top 20 influencers in big data from a Forbes list. This is what I learned and want to share about outreach and what I learned along the way about Big Data, something I intend on continuing to learn about. Stock photo of dancing people courtesy of Shutterstock: http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-59316988/stock-photo-group-of-friends-men-and-women-of-different-ethnicity-having-fun-in-a-disco-or-nightclub.htmlTRANSCRIPT
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The Ultimate Outreach Challenge
Kate Morris
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Why?
Outreach is hard but is the core of any successful marketing strategy online.
Relationships drive business.
@katemorris
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The Challenge
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20 Forbes Influencers
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The Goal
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A Quote to Rule from them ALL
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Caveats
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Outreach ≠ Link Building
Don’t be THAT guy
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I knew they’d find out how I cheated.
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Boring Topic??
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Step 1: Creating the List
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Organize Your List of Contacts
@katemorris
Name Company Email Twitter Website LinkedIn LinkedIn Level
Notes
Joe B Acme [email protected] @joeb www.joeb.com
http://www.li …
3 Loves Ford Mustangs
Martha HUF Inc. @martha marthaspeaks.com
http://www.li …
2 Into Hot Tea
These will change depending on what your goal is and who you’re
talking to.And sometimes, not all information will be
available.
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Twitter List
I left her off because she as a person wasn’t really into big
data. She was a freelance writer.
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Step 2: Listening, Talking,
Reading
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Read and Listen
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Retweet
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You’ll learn something new, tell people about it.
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Ultimate Outreach Challenge @katemorris
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Find Your Best Targets
Geography
Interests Writing Style
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Anoth
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Seatt
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FAIL
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Reminder: Be Patient
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Friendships are not made in a day … unless there is alcohol involved.
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Step 3: Be Prepared to
Change Your Mind
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The point of reading is to get to know more about the industry/topic.
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“What is the next big thing in big data?”
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First Quote Idea
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“What is your best advice for a company with lots of data?”“How do you get someone in an organization to make decisions by data?”
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After Reading
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Step 4: Ask Nicely
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Tweets
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Em
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Anoth
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Seatt
lite
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Step 5: Go Unorthodox?
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Results
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Rather than trying to use Big Data to make sweeping, strategic judgments, I think organizations should focus on making these operational micro decisions more precise by applying a wide variety of data sources and thus Big Data.
James Taylor@jamet123
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He then DM’d me his email
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Information is becoming more important to the business … 90% of that information is unstructured and in the cloud. It’s that information that will give me what I need to kill the competition.
@ChristianVe – HP
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Those who own the data, make the rules.
Dion Hinchcliffe@dhinchcliffe
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Big Data can deliver great value, but there is a limit to how much it can predict human behavior.
Gregory Piatetsky@kdnuggets
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Predictive analytics can figure out how to land on Mars, but not who will buy a Mars bar.
@kdnuggetshttp://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/10/big_data_hype_and_reality.html
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The best information [on cities and Big Data] comes from IBM’s TheSmarterCity Initiative. An example is Rio de Janiero …
Stephen DeAngelis@EnterraCEO
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35945.wss
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There is seemingly no area in which we can’t benefit from analyzing data: law enforcement, business, politics, economics, sports, even sex… and yet there is a real risk in overestimating our ability to use data to make accurate predictions. Big data is constrained by human limitations.
Klint Finley@klintron
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You will Fail.
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FAIL
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FAIL
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Sometimes Failure is Success Delayed.
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Don’t Push It.
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Procrastination Life Happens.
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Hurricane Happens
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Final Stats
20 Forbes Influencers
1 Disqualified (19)
2 No Interaction (17)
3 No Pushing (14)
6 In Progress
6 Done2 Failed
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Big Data Lessons
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Big Data Success
1. Your data is your competitive advantage. Use what you have to win. Own the market by listening.
2. Understand that while big data has potential it is not the cure all. It cannot answer all questions.
3. Get examples by following trendsetters like IBM and HP.
@katemorris
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Outreach Lessons
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Outreach Lessons
1. Plan and PrepareDo your research on your contacts.
2. Read, Listen and LearnAbsorb all the material you can, it’ll help you ask the right ?s later.
3. Share your LearningPrepare for intelligent conversations.
4. Be PatientFriendships don’t happen overnight.
5. Ask Nicely6. Get Attention7. Know you will Fail
And that’s okay.
8. Life Happens
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Most influential people are those that talk about everyone else, and sometimes themselves.Not the other way around.